Seth Meyers: Panicked Trump Stoops to Selling Bibles, Calls Biden “Buden,” Hit with Gag Order
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*headdesk*
Always love when guests come down, expecting the response to their complaint about another guest to be “Yes ma’am, we’ll whack their pee-pee right away!,” and instead get me giving them a bored look and telling them that we can’t do anything unless we know exactly who did what.
Tonight’s example: The woman who put her stuff in a washer in the guest laundry, went off to fuck around in her room, and is now OUTRAGED that someone got tired of waiting for her to move her shit to one of the dryers and did it for her. She wants me to take down a written complaint (*sigh* done), to refund her for the cost of doing her laundry (not happening), and to penalize whoever it was that touched her clothes (virtually impossible). She was shocked that we had no cameras in the hallway and babbling that the hotel she stayed at in Florida would hit anybody who touched her clothes without her explicit permission with a $100 penalty.
You have my sympathy and you remind me why 1) I’m glad I have tonight off and 2) why I had a nice D9 gummy about 90 minutes ago so I am wandering off now. May your night get better T, or at least stay normal.
re: #209 prairiefire
I can’t leave the couch after a gummie🤷♀️
I’m gummie’d tonight…I have become one with the recliner
re: #4 William Lewis
You have my sympathy and you remind me why 1) I’m glad I have tonight off and 2) why I had a nice D9 gummy about 90 minutes ago so I am wandering off now. May your night get better T, or at least stay normal.
It’s about as normal as I expect these days. At least I’m having somewhat of a better night than the construction supervisor who got called in the dead of night and told to run to the airport, grab a baker’s dozen of migrant workers being flown in, drive them here to check into the six rooms the company rented last-minute, and also told that there’s three more on a flight that doesn’t land for another 2 hours.
re: #3 Targetpractice
I just want to say I love all the hotel stories you (and the other desk clerks) tell. I was a 100K flyer on United for almost a decade, back when companies understood sending techs out for onsite visits always benefited sales, and I always sympathized with the front desk staff when the idiots were coming in hot and stupid.
re: #3 Targetpractice
She was shocked that we had no cameras in the hallway and babbling that the hotel she stayed at in Florida would hit anybody who touched her clothes without her explicit permission with a $100 penalty.
Yeah, that never happened.
re: #9 William Lewis
Oh, almost forgot, At the lesson earlier today, took my daily picture…
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Nothing special, it’s just one fun spilling over into the other.
It’s all good vibrations.
re: #10 coin operated
I just want to say I love all the hotel stories you (and the other desk clerks) tell. I was a 100K flyer on United for almost a decade, back when companies understood sending techs out for onsite visits always benefited sales, and I always sympathized with the front desk staff when the idiots were coming in hot and stupid.
So yeah, funny story, the only reason we still have overnight staff here at our hotel when most of the hotels in our new hotel chain don’t…is because the GM thinks having someone at the desk to scream at helps hotel reviews. Well, really it’s more the idea that resolving guest issues promptly boosts guest opinions, but I’ll let ya’ll in on a little secret: Once a guest has an issue, your hopes of a high score are fucked. I lost count of the number of reviews I used to read back when I still had access that would be marked down from a 9 or 10 to a 6 or 7 for no other reason than because the room was a bit chilly when they first arrived or the TV signal dropped out during a hurricane.
‘Never before seen’: Ex-Giuliani associate posts video ‘Republicans don’t want you to see’
Video is embedded in the Raw Story link
re: #14 Joe Bacon ✅
‘Never before seen’: Ex-Giuliani associate posts video ‘Republicans don’t want you to see’
Video is embedded in the Raw Story link
I think we’re still in the early innings of the FO World Series.
The future Republicans want is Anthony Comstock’s boots on the heads of American women, forever
Alito gave it away today - the Court will use Comstock to outlaw not only medical abortions but contraceptives, condoms, dildoes, any information explaining how to get/use any of these and any book deemed filthy - as soon as it gets a good case. One of the first things we have to do when we win is reverse this law that was viewed as outdated because of Court decisions. It is a great example of a zombie law that can come back simply by a new Court deciding it can.
Neil Gorsuch Confidently Declares That He Did The Research (He Did Not Do The Research)
You know we are in real trouble when s Court justice just makes shit up, easily fact-checkable shit.
So big Biden fundraiser tomorrow, at Radio City,
Biden, Obama and Clinton. Together. 50th, 51st and 52nd Streets, from 5th to 6th Avenue, will be completely closed to vehicles from noon to midnight, and mostly closed to pedestrians (unless your ID says you live there.)
They expect to net $15,000,000.
Time for women and their allies to show exactly just how much political power they have. The Court will try and overturn everything from gay marriage to contraception i=ubsing Comstock.
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, that never happened.
Oh, I’m willing to believe that some manager told her that shit just to get the guest who was acting as pleasant as a cactus spine on their prostate to go away. But yeah, unless there is signage up in the room saying that messing with the clothing of other guests is punishable by $100 fine and 4K UHD footage of said act, then the most we can usually do is promise to “look into it.”
re: #16 silverdolphin
Absolutely agree. First things we have to do when we get back control of Congress and the White House is make Roe vs. Wade the law of the land and repeal the Comstock Act.
Among other things, to be sure, but those have to be a priority, like “first hundred days” sort of priorities.
Ukrainian troops successfully use autonomous FPV drone for the first timehttps://t.co/0AqqnDvV4J
— Defence Blog (@Defence_blog) March 20, 2024
Ukrainian activist and volunteer, Serhii Sternenko, has shared video footage showcasing the use of a new FPV drone equipped with autonomous targeting capabilities.
The drone reportedly demonstrated its ability to strike targets without direct operator commands, marking a new milestone in Ukrainian military tactics.
The footage, shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), captures the precise destruction of a Russian tank, achieved through a coordinated effort between the 60th and 63rd Mechanized Brigades. Sternenko emphasized the drone’s resilience, noting its successful attack despite encountering active jamming from enemy electronic warfare systems. In the final stage of the operation, the drone autonomously engaged and blew up the Russian tank.
The introduction of autonomous targeting capabilities opens new possibilities for drone warfare, enabling the engagement of enemy targets over extended distances amidst active radio interference—a previously challenging feat.
re: #15 BigPapa
I’m really curious just how far the rabbit hole J6 will take us….
Elected officials - I fully expect that we have members of Congress, former and current, who knew what was coming and to some extent were involved, I.e. the delaying of certification by the submission of the false elector slates to keep the House and Senate in place while the assault unfolded, if not complicit. How those who may have known have not come forward in my mind makes them just as guilty, accessories after the fact.
Government Officials - someone was responsible for the understaffing of the Capitol, the delay in making troops available, the security agencies that refused to follow the planning that was taking place In social media and the fact that they’ve had to have the assistance of crowd sourcing the participants. The Secret Service and the missing texts, all of those guys should be finding work elsewhere for not telling us wtf was going on.
The Logistics crew - the people that got the permits, arranged the social media connectivity, coordinated with the Proud Boys, Oath keepers and III%’s and found them rooms, transportation and Intel on the Capitol itself (see Thomas, Ginni). Someone had to herd these cats and coordinate with the WH and the Trump Administration and the planners of the coup. Who funded this?
I want all of these people in jail.
Netanyahu Reverses, Will Send Diplomats To DC Meetup
Bibi blinked.
re: #25 ericblair
So it’ll be the cruise ship of the damned.
re: #25 ericblair
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12 years? There’s been talk about “rebuilding” the Titanic for longer than that, at least as far back as the mid-90s when the success of Titanic had several billionaires suddenly promising to “rebuild” the ship for a modern audience. I have a copy of Popular Mechanics from the period…somewhere…that details the plans and all the ways in which it would end up just being a modern cruise ship with the name “Titanic” slapped on the side.
re: #16 silverdolphin
The future Republicans want is Anthony Comstock’s boots on the heads of American women, forever
Alito gave it away today - the Court will use Comstock to outlaw not only medical abortions but contraceptives, condoms, dildoes, any information explaining how to get/use any of these and any book deemed filthy - as soon as it gets a good case. One of the first things we have to do when we win is reverse this law that was viewed as outdated because of Court decisions. It is a great example of a zombie law that can come back simply by a new Court deciding it can.
Because of the filibuster, the Comstock Act will not be repealed, even if the Democrats reelect President Biden and manage to elect 50 Senators* and a House majority. Fortunately, SCOTUS can’t compel police and prosecutors to enforce it. Unfortunately, it will remain sitting there, waiting for the next Republican AG who wants to wield it to ban abortion nationwide.
*Unless we finally get 50 US Senators with the guts to reform the filibuster. Then the first order of business should be to admit D.C. as a state and get two more Democratic Senators into the Senate.
re: #25 ericblair
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Yes, I want to get into a historically accurate death trap that will also be a petri dish of disease!
Speaking of vaccines, Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia bucked his party and vetoed a bill to relax vaccine requirements for school children. Current WV law allows only medical vaccine exemptions to attend school, public or private, as it should be.
And fore it is. ⛳️
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Good morning world!
Hello, sudden thunderstorm. Yes, I’m awake.
re: #33 Targetpractice
Hello, sudden thunderstorm. Yes, I’m awake.
My wife always used to forget to close the sunroof in our car.
One night we woke up to the sound of a thunderstorm.
“Did you close the sunroof?” I asked.
She sat bolt upright.
“Dont worry,” I continued. “I closed it before bedtime.”
(I am cruel)
re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My wife always used to forget to close the sunroof in our car.
One night we woke up to the sound of a thunderstorm.
“Did you close the sunroof?” I asked.
She sat bolt upright.
“Dont worry,” I continued. “I closed it before bedtime.”
(I am cruel)
My Mom’s previous daily driver was a 2011 Nissan Altima that my Dad got her as an anniversary present and it came with a sunroof. And yes, sudden summer storms led to exchanges in the household of
Dad: “Babe?”
Mom: “Yeah?”
D: “Did you remember to close the sunroof?”
M: *long silence* “FUCK!!!” *frantic scrambling*
D: *Bent over, dying of laughter*
re: #25 ericblair
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Nature has a way of healing I suppose.
Might want to try for an “iceberg-free environment”.
The Alabama Republicans have figured out why Marilyn Lands stomped them in the special election: They weren’t radically-conservative enough.
Wahl said Powell adopted a “middle of the road strategy in an attempt to bring in swing voters.”
In light of the election results, Wahl said, the lesson is that Republicans should focus on conservative messaging in November.
We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid.
re: #38 Decatur Deb
I have to wonder what data they have that told them that, or if that’s just their “gut feeling” because they’re butthurt that their guy didn’t run their strategy. By all means, Republicans, lean hard into the paint. Campaign on taking away people’s rights and enabling the rich to stomp all over the rest of us even more. I’m sure that’ll go swimmingly.
re: #38 Decatur Deb
The Alabama Republicans have figured out why Marilyn Lands stomped them in the special election: They weren’t radically-conservative enough.
We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid.
Whenever they win big, it’s a mandate that proves that the voters want what they’re selling.
When they get thrashed, it wasn’t the message it was the messenger and they just need to double down harder.
Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
Bang. 0-1 count, then a line drive straight over the fence.
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I am seeing tweets that:
“The NBC executive, Jack Donaghy, that hired Ronna McDaniel, has been fired. He’s a major donor to the RNC.”
However, I have not yet seen any confirmation.
Additionally, there is a fictional 30 Rock character by that name.
This needs to happen everywhere — remember when you could repair your own stuff?
From ARS:
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can’t block repair parts with software pairing checks.
arstechnica.com
re: #19 silverdolphin
Time for women and their allies to show exactly just how much political power they have. The Court will try and overturn everything from gay marriage to contraception i=ubsing Comstock.
I struggle to believe states would follow that type of ruling. And who would enforce it? The justices can’t invent a penalty and even if they did, a Dem admin isn’t sending the FBI to arrest women.
re: #46 Mike Lamb
I struggle to believe states would follow that type of ruling. And who would enforce it? The justices can’t invent a penalty and even if they did, a Dem admin isn’t sending the FBI to arrest women.
Texas and Florida governors would find or make up a way, they love it when they get to grandstand, and who cares if they have legal underpinning? — Certainly not the voters who put those turds in office.
It’s Thursday, so coffee, ‘zempic, then garbage…
re: #45 Randall Gross
This needs to happen everywhere — remember when you could repair your own stuff?
From ARS:
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can’t block repair parts with software pairing checks.
arstechnica.com
That’s a big deal. Right to repair is a contentious topic among - of all groups - farmers. John Deere even got sued a few years back, a giant class action, regarding right to repair. I understand manufacturers not wanting to be liable or have to deal with support when end users install aftermarket parts, but consumers absolutely have a right to fix their own stuff instead of being forced to replace it. Planned obsolescence is a hell of a drug.
If they can torpedo a Muslim appointment, then they can torpedo a Jewish one:
Republicans have attacked Mangi for his affiliation with the Rutgers Law School Center for Security, Race and Rights, chastising its decision to host an event featuring a speaker named Sami Al-Arian, who in 2006 pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist the designated terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to the Justice Department. Mangi told the Senate in written testimony he had “no involvement” in the Rutgers Center speaker events.
White House ramps up defense of embattled Muslim American judicial nominee
nbcnews.com
(and we have a 3rd Dem Defection.)
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
That’s a big deal. Right to repair is a contentious topic among - of all groups - farmers. John Deere even got sued a few years back, a giant class action, regarding right to repair. I understand manufacturers not wanting to be liable or have to deal with support when end users install aftermarket parts, but consumers absolutely have a right to fix their own stuff instead of being forced to replace it. Planned obsolescence is a hell of a drug.
Isn’t part of the issue whether purchasers own it or are only renting it? John Deere tractor repairs. But also car “subscriptions” to access features already in your car.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
That’s a big deal. Right to repair is a contentious topic among - of all groups - farmers. John Deere even got sued a few years back, a giant class action, regarding right to repair. I understand manufacturers not wanting to be liable or have to deal with support when end users install aftermarket parts, but consumers absolutely have a right to fix their own stuff instead of being forced to replace it. Planned obsolescence is a hell of a drug.
Yes, our society has become thoroughly used to enshittification and disposable “hard” goods…
re: #52 ckkatz
Isn’t part of the issue whether purchasers own it or are only renting it? John Deere tractor repairs. But also car “subscriptions” to access features already in your car.
That’s the core of the issue, and it’s at the forefront in places like video gaming, where most companies are now selling what essentially amount to subscription services for their games. When those subscriptions expire, the game companies just take all those games away, no matter whether you “purchased” them over and above the subscription service price or not.
WaPo:Chris Christie turns down No Labels presidential bid after discussions
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R) has decided against running as the No Labels candidate for president after spending time and money gaming out the prospects of a centrist third-party bid against President Biden and former president Donald Trump.
From Igor Derysh, managing editor Salon
“This is insane”: RNC reportedly makes Trump’s false election claims a “litmus test” for new hires
“If you say the election wasn’t stolen, do you really think you’re going to get hired?” ex-RNC staffer says
salon.com
Joe Lieberman has passed
apnews.com
re: #30 No Malarkey!
Speaking of vaccines, Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia bucked his party and vetoed a bill to relax vaccine requirements for school children. Current WV law allows only medical vaccine exemptions to attend school, public or private, as it should be.
WV has one of the most stringent vaccine exemption requirements in the nation - you must show a medical reason, and all others are ignored.
re: #56 ckkatz
No Labels has .. *checks notes* no one to run its false flag operation. They’ve run out of “moderates” and “independents”.
re: #61 lawhawk
No Labels has .. *checks notes* no one to run its false flag operation. They’ve run out of “moderates” and “independents”.
Yup.
Although apparently Christie spent “time and money” to see if there was anyway it might be beneficial to him. I guess that just because it was ratfuckery apparently wasn’t a problem.
The NBC shitshow over hiring Ronna McDaniel is far worse than everyone actually understands. It appears NBC tried to coordinate with the GOP to start a campaign to support Ronna by getting a “groundswell of support” to sack Chuck Todd or Jen Psaki.
re: #63 lawhawk
The NBC shitshow over hiring Ronna McDaniel is far worse than everyone actually understands. It appears NBC tried to coordinate with the GOP to start a campaign to support Ronna by getting a “groundswell of support” to sack Chuck Todd or Jen Psaki.
What in the actual fuck is going on in our media?! Actively collaborating with a political party seems like the exact opposite of Magical Balance Fairy. Are these execs ever going to learn that reality has a liberal bias and that “both sides” is not ever the right way to run a news organization?
re: #63 lawhawk
The NBC shitshow over hiring Ronna McDaniel is far worse than everyone actually understands. It appears NBC tried to coordinate with the GOP to start a campaign to support Ronna by getting a “groundswell of support” to sack Chuck Todd or Jen Psaki.
The article references 30 Rock… When reality starts to resemble a comedy show…
re: #64 Nerdy Fish
What in the actual fuck is going on in our media?! Actively collaborating with a political party seems like the exact opposite of Magical Balance Fairy. Are these execs ever going to learn that reality has a liberal bias and that “both sides” is not ever the right way to run a news organization?
They’re corporations. And the higher up you go, the more they act like democracy is something to be bought and sold. The only problem is that their actual commodities would have walked out and their product would habe been worthless if they had hired her.
This is why I say Democrats need to be “investing” in NPR by donating frequently and give them a large enough budget to afford to pay for excellent reporting,
If New York’s MTA dynamic toll charge is “congestion pricing”, Is Wendy’s planned dynamic price “indigestion pricing”?
A note about Puck, the website, from Wikipedia:
In a 2022 profile, The New Yorker described Puck’s editorial tone as being “deliberately clubby,” with part of the appeal for readers being that “its writers move in the same elevated spaces as the people whom they cover.”[3] Bloomberg News described Puck as a company that ‘treats reporters like social media influencers’[1]
re: #65 darthstar
Also, it looks like the train is straight to me. :)
re: #67 Belafon
They’re corporations. And the higher up you go, the more they act like democracy is something to be bought and sold. The only problem is that their actual commodities would have walked out and their product would habe been worthless if they had hired her.
This is why I say Democrats need to be “investing” in NPR by donating frequently and give them a large enough budget to afford to pay for excellent reporting,
Yeah, I don’t know about this. Simple profit-seeking corporate behavior gets the right wing pissing themselves about WOKE corporations, because from a money point of view gay people like soft drinks too.
What seems to be happening is that ideologically addled executives are screwing with corporate strategies to the detriment of their companies because they have the power to do that. Viz Elmo and his tweeter machine.
re: #20 Targetpractice
Oh, I’m willing to believe that some manager told her that shit just to get the guest who was acting as pleasant as a cactus spine on their prostate to go away. But yeah, unless there is signage up in the room saying that messing with the clothing of other guests is punishable by $100 fine and 4K UHD footage of said act, then the most we can usually do is promise to “look into it.”
Heaven forbid the guest try to be considerate of others and check on their laundry often enough so that the machine becomes available to others. Unless you are sitting there waiting for it you have to pretty much half expect your stuff to get moved in a place with shared laundry facilities since others’ patience is not infinite and they have needs and time constraints as well.
re: #71 lawhawk
I loved Jen Psaki as WHPS… She dropped a Doocy during her press conferences without effort.
I haven’t been as wowed by her show, though, as being a good host requires making the scripted seem unscripted. That takes time and experience.
Chuck Todd sucked for the same reason. “Let me try my gotcha question now…”but without having listened to the previous response it’s a non sequitur.
re: #73 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Heaven forbid the guest try to be considerate of others and check on their laundry often enough so that the machine becomes available to others. Unless you are sitting there waiting for it you have to pretty much half expect your stuff to get moved in a place with shared laundry facilities since others’ patience is not infinite and they have needs and time constraints as well.
When I was in college, with shared laundry facilities in the dorms, the rule was that you moved the previous guy’s stuff into a dryer or onto a table if the only idle machine had clothes in it, and then you made a good faith effort to wait for a bit to see if you could catch him and tell him where you moved the stuff. But that was a college dorm, where we were all expected to know each other and get along. I wouldn’t expect total strangers in a shared living environment to make any such effort.
re: #76 Nerdy Fish
In college if I pulled someone’s clothes out of the dryer I’d fold to them on top of the nearest machine as I removed them so s big pile of clean clothes wouldn’t fall to the floor. Took all of an extra three minutes.
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And fore it is. ⛳️
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The U.S. economy grew at a 3.4% annualized rate in Q4, up from the 3.2% rate estimated a month ago.https://t.co/qHGf5n47pp#GDP
— BEA News (@BEA_News) March 28, 2024
Here’s why this is bad news for Biden.
re: #63 lawhawk
The NBC shitshow over hiring Ronna McDaniel is far worse than everyone actually understands. It appears NBC tried to coordinate with the GOP to start a campaign to support Ronna by getting a “groundswell of support” to sack Chuck Todd or Jen Psaki.
Best Roy Kent imitation:
FUUUUUHHHHCK!
re: #80 lawhawk
Here’s why this is bad news for Biden.
I was gonna say, “Quick - someone ping the NY Times Pitchbot!”
So Lee Greenwood sold the leather Good Bless America bible in 2021 to mark the anniversary of 9/11. For $49.99.
So basically Trump is selling the overstock of that campaign which he is getting for next to nothing for $60.
Next he’ll sell Trump endorsed copies of Miracle on Ice VHS and Betamax versions.
re: #82 Dr Lizardo
I was gonna say, “Quick - someone ping the NY Times Pitchbot!”
It’s getting to the point that, like the Tenth Doctor episode on the train, people are going to start thinking the Pitchbot is stealing from others.
Over at Bsky Avi , Imani, and many others are debating whether the dems in congress should attempt repeal of the Comstock act.
re: #56 ckkatz
WaPo:Chris Christie turns down No Labels presidential bid after discussions
I would think that Christie would not be interested in helping Trump get back in the White House after Trump nearly killed him.
re: #3 Targetpractice
*headdesk*
Always love when guests come down, expecting the response to their complaint about another guest to be “Yes ma’am, we’ll whack their pee-pee right away!,” and instead get me giving them a bored look and telling them that we can’t do anything unless we know exactly who did what.
Tonight’s example: The woman who put her stuff in a washer in the guest laundry, went off to fuck around in her room, and is now OUTRAGED that someone got tired of waiting for her to move her shit to one of the dryers and did it for her. She wants me to take down a written complaint (*sigh* done), to refund her for the cost of doing her laundry (not happening), and to penalize whoever it was that touched her clothes (virtually impossible). She was shocked that we had no cameras in the hallway and babbling that the hotel she stayed at in Florida would hit anybody who touched her clothes without her explicit permission with a $100 penalty.
In this part of Florida we just make you sit in the box for 2 minutes
In case you missed it yesterday among all the legal filings and case updates, Trump coconspirator and accomplice in trying to end democracy in America is one step closer to being disbarred in California. A judge recommends that he be disbarred - the decision gets made by the California Supreme Court, but his license is suspended as part of the judge’s ruling.
Eastman will lose his ability to practice law within days, because the court’s decision involuntarily revokes his license, according to the opinion.
Judge Yvette Roland’s opinion comes after a lengthy trial about Eastman’s actions as he led some of the efforts for Donald Trump to challenge his 2020 election loss. The opinion serves as a recommendation to the California Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide whether to endorse or reject the punishment. Eastman will have the opportunity to appeal Roland’s ruling.
re: #87 Dangerman
Is that for holding, crosschecking, or giving the person the business?
re: #65 darthstar
Scotrail social media person FTW
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For a small and relatively quiet country, there are times when Czech Republic can definitely punch above its weight….
An investigation by Czech intelligence service BIS uncovered payouts by a website based in Prague to politicians in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary and Poland. The website, Voice of Europe, was accused of spending hundreds of thousands of euros in 2023 to get politicians and opinion makers in those countries to spread Russian propaganda points. Dutch far-right political leader Thierry Baudet, who threatened violence in Parliament when questioned over funding sources for his Forum voor Democratie (FvD) party, declined to show up in person for a meeting on Thursday to discuss his outbursts.
The Czech investigation announced on Wednesday did not specifically identify any politicians suspected of accepting money from Voice of Europe. The website promotes pro-Russian news and viewpoints in more than a dozen languages, including English and Dutch. Baudet has been frequently featured by the media outlet, and was often quoted in their articles, especially last year.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs simultaneously added Voice of Europe, Viktor Medvedchuk and Artem Pavlovich Marchevskyi to its national sanctions list because of the investigation. “This decision is in the interest of the security of the Czech Republic, and also contributes to the protection of democracy in the upcoming European Parliament elections,” the ministry said.
re: #48 ckkatz
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I’m really hoping this ass-clown can bleed off a big percentage, maybe most, of Trump’s massive tinfoil hat constituency. Repugs are more delusional than usual if they imagine that he can attract any significant percentage of Democrats. The holistic granola munchers either made their peace with the Dems, went repug/leper, or died long ago.
re: #86 No Malarkey!
I would think that Christie would not be interested in helping Trump get back in the White House after Trump nearly killed him.
His calculation may have been who does this hurt more, and realized that it would either be a wash or hurt Biden.
re: #88 lawhawk
In case you missed it yesterday among all the legal filings and case updates, Trump coconspirator and accomplice in trying to end democracy in America is one step closer to being disbarred in California. A judge recommends that he be disbarred - the decision gets made by the California Supreme Court, but his license is suspended as part of the judge’s ruling.
I saw that, and it is indeed good news.
Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders https://t.co/LSHDpy4ip1
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 27, 2024
re: #91 Dr Lizardo
For a small and relatively quiet country, there are times when Czech Republic can definitely punch above its weight….
Yes it does!
Czech has also been central in getting the EU to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine. Apparently that effort is well underway and has delivered 100s of thousands of shell already. I suspect that there are other projects that we have not yet heard about.
JUST IN: Maryland lawmakers are drafting emergency legislation for income replacement to assist thousands of Port of Baltimore workers impacted by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. https://t.co/LfaRdYc5Zl
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) March 27, 2024
$2 billion: Federal officials told Maryland lawmakers that replacing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore would cost at least $2 billion, @Zachary_Cohen reports
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 27, 2024
Yellen: “We have money from the bipartisan infrastructure law that could potentially be helpful.
“My expectation would be that, ultimately, there’ll be insurance payments in part to cover this.”
But admin doesn’t want financing questions to hold up reconstruction, she said. https://t.co/mHlzwuqZ49— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 27, 2024
re: #97 Belafon
I’ve seen reporting and commentating that suggests the rebuild schedule could be anywhere from 2-10 years. Yeah, quite a range. I figure that it’ll be closer to the lower end of the range, but it takes time to design and build a replacement bridge. My guess is that it will be a cable stayed structure, with the main span piers located either onshore, or close enough to shore that they’d be fully protected by ground/riprap/dolphins. The bridge will probably have a higher mean high water clearance, which will coincidentally allow even bigger ships to use the port.
re: #63 lawhawk
The NBC shitshow over hiring Ronna McDaniel is far worse than everyone actually understands. It appears NBC tried to coordinate with the GOP to start a campaign to support Ronna by getting a “groundswell of support” to sack Chuck Todd or Jen Psaki.
Interesting article. It never occurred to corporate that McDaniel’s role in trying to subvert democracy might be problematic until the hire blew up in their faces.
re: #97 Belafon
I’m wondering if the powers that be will end up building a new Port of Baltimore facility outside the Baltimore Beltway, possibly at Sparrows Point. That’s still inside two Chesapeake Bay bridges, though.
If you lock out using the Chesapeake Bay, that would ship Maryland jobs to Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, or New York.
re: #47 Randall Gross
Texas and Florida governors would find or make up a way, they love it when they get to grandstand, and who cares if they have legal underpinning? — Certainly not the voters who put those turds in office.
They will institute a bounty (of her loins) hunter system.
Maternal Marshals
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump gives himself imaginary trophies in a club competition that had no other competitors. Everyone from Tiger Woods on down have stories of Trump cheating at golf. Why didn’t anyone stop him on the course from pulling that crap?
All of these guys (and they’re invariably guys), wanted to have their own personal Trump cheats at golf stories.
It’s just another symptom of the rot in Trumpworld and Trump himself.
re: #65 darthstar
Scotrail social media person FTW
“…when it needs repainted in 2029”
My Scottish ex-wife used that construction all the time. I would tell her she needs learned English.
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I’m really hoping this ass-clown can bleed off a big percentage, maybe most, of Trump’s massive tinfoil hat constituency. Repugs are more delusional than usual if they imagine that he can attract any significant percentage of Democrats. The holistic granola munchers either made their peace with the Dems, went repug/leper, or died long ago.
The question is how many people will see the name “Kennedy” and vote for him, not realizing his family has pretty much disowned him. His SuperBowl ad was specifically designed to appeal to Kennedy nostalgia.
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“…when it needs repainted in 2029”
My Scottish ex-wife used that construction all the time. I would tell her she needs learned English.
Pittsburgh folks use that too!
eg, ” needs cleaned”
re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“…when it needs repainted in 2029”
My Scottish ex-wife used that construction all the time. I would tell her she needs learned English.
I guess the answer to Hamlet’s question is not “to be.”
re: #103 lawhawk
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump gives himself imaginary trophies in a club competition that had no other competitors. Everyone from Tiger Woods on down have stories of Trump cheating at golf. Why didn’t anyone stop him on the course from pulling that crap?
All of these guys (and they’re invariably guys), wanted to have their own personal Trump cheats at golf stories.
It’s just another symptom of the rot in Trumpworld and Trump himself.
If the media we have today was available in 1933, we would have had pro fascist guests on the talk shows and they would hire the actual traitors to commentator positions…wait a minute…
re: #21 Dr Lizardo
Absolutely agree. First things we have to do when we get back control of Congress and the White House is make Roe vs. Wade the law of the land and repeal the Comstock Act.
Among other things, to be sure, but those have to be a priority, like “first hundred days” sort of priorities.
Sigh. Unfortunately, as soon as Republicans ever get back into control, abortion will then be banned nationwide.
re: #96 ckkatz
Yes it does!
Czech has also been central in getting the EU to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine. Apparently that effort is well underway and has delivered 100s of thousands of shell already. I suspect that there are other projects that we have not yet heard about.
A lot of this I’ll credit to President Petr Pavel, aka “Impossibly Photogenic General”. There was some skepticism at first that he would prove to be an empty suit, but he’s overcome that skepticism and shown himself to be a most effective leader (bearing in mind that the presidency here is largely a ceremonial position).
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
A lot of this I’ll credit to President Petr Pavel, aka “Impossibly Photogenic General”. There was some skepticism at first that he would prove to be an empty suit, but he’s overcome that skepticism and shown himself to be a most effective leader (bearing in mind that the presidency here is largely a ceremonial position).
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re: #109 Hecuba’s daughter
Sigh. Unfortunately, as soon as Republicans ever get back into control, abortion will then be banned nationwide.
Then we just have to make goddamned sure that they never get back into control.
We need to hold out for ten to fifteen years - and by then, I reckon the GOP will be a permanent minority party, locked out of the White House indefinitely and most likely having fractured to such a degree that at the national level, they’re finished. They’ll end up as a regional party, found in the Bible Belt and in parts of the intermountain West.
They’ll be a threat to no one at that point.
re: #112 No Malarkey!
That is one fine head of hair!
I’ve heard Czechs jokingly call him “Tom Cruise’s dad” 😄
He’s definitely got that silver fox energy.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will institute a bounty hunter system.
Maternal Marshals
In the 1850’s they were called slavecatchers. I wonder what they will be called in this version. And there were a bunch of times that Buchanan had to deploy the military to protect the slavecatchers.
Politico: When the South Wasn’t a Fan of States’ Rights
Sometimes, Boston’s activists failed, most dramatically in 1854, when Anthony Burns, a 21-year-old fugitive slave from Richmond, was apprehended and brought before Edward G. Loring, a prominent jurist acting as U.S. commissioner. Hundreds of persons gathered at the courthouse, but guards repulsed a rescue attempt. Following the letter of the law, Loring ordered Burns returned to slavery. It took some 1,600 men—police, militia units and three companies of federal infantry and marines—to march Burns to a waiting ship.
Holy fuck.
“America is dying & her destruction is imminent.”
This is “Constitutional Sheriffs & Peace Officers Association” which is a club for QAnon police departments willing to participate in extralegal activities when the time comes.
You can purchase Flynn movie tickets on… pic.twitter.com/GzJuEcU5hj— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) March 28, 2024
Some of those that work forces
are the same that burn crosses.
re: #113 Dr Lizardo
Then we just have to make goddamned sure that they never get back into control.
We need to hold out for ten to fifteen years - and by then, I reckon the GOP will be a permanent minority party, locked out of the White House indefinitely and most likely having fractured to such a degree that at the national level, they’re finished. They’ll end up as a regional party, found in the Bible Belt and in parts of the intermountain West.
They’ll be a threat to no one at that point.
It’s that, or regain their sanity and move back toward the center to the point that college educated voters trust them again.
re: #116 DodgerFan1988
Why are people still taking Mike Lindell at all seriously??? Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, that man is a certified wackadoodle at this point.
re: #118 Nerdy Fish
Why are people still taking Mike Lindell at all seriously??? Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, that man is a certified wackadoodle at this point.
That is an organization of certified wackadoodles!
re: #32 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #117 No Malarkey!
It’s that, or regain their sanity and move back toward the center to the point that college educated voters trust them again.
All they need to do is throw out the Evangelical Christian Nationalists. That right there is what’s preventing the GOP from becoming a normal center-right political party.
Ditch the religious fanatics, and they’ve got it made. And as for the Jesus wackos…well, I say fuck ‘em. Let them start their own political party.
re: #118 Nerdy Fish
Why are people still taking Mike Lindell at all seriously??? Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, that man is a certified wackadoodle at this point.
The whole party is nuts. Crackhead Mike is a mainstream 2024 Republican.
re: #123 Dr Lizardo
All they need to do is throw out the Evangelical Christian Nationalists. That right there is what’s preventing the GOP from becoming a normal center-right political party.
Ditch the religious fanatics, and they’ve got it made. And as for the Jesus wackos…well, I say fuck ‘em. Let them start their own political party.
They can’t win elections without the theocratic fruitcakes. They’re a failed party because they need the support of dangerous lunatics to win.
re: #120 No Malarkey!
That is an organization of certified wackadoodles!
I mean, yeah, that’s a fair point.
re: #124 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The whole party is nuts. Crackhead Mike is a mainstream 2024 Republican.
Don’t I know it. My town’s former mayor is now running around his new city, spreading lies and spouting Crackhead Mike’s insane theories. I wonder what would’ve happened to this town if he was still in charge.
re: #108 nines09
If the media we have today was available in 1933, we would have had pro fascist guests on the talk shows and they would hire the actual traitors to commentator positions…wait a minute…
I wonder how often newspaper and radio people interviewed Linburgh about what was happening in Europe.
re: #123 Dr Lizardo
All they need to do is throw out the Evangelical Christian Nationalists. That right there is what’s preventing the GOP from becoming a normal center-right political party.
Ditch the religious fanatics, and they’ve got it made. And as for the Jesus wackos…well, I say fuck ‘em. Let them start their own political party.
Easier said than done with the Christofascists now firmly in control of the party.
re: #109 Hecuba’s daughter
Sigh. Unfortunately, as soon as Republicans ever get back into control, abortion will then be banned nationwide.
Well, then, keep them out of leadership. The next acts improve voting right, seriously restrict gerrymandering, and start doing something abiut Citizens United.
The GOP cannot be trusted to run anything, and will see conspiracies everywhere, including when viewing buses carrying athletes from the airport to their hotel as part of March Madness.
A sitting State Representative sees a group of busses at the airport and immediately yells “illegal invaders” which is a pretty rude (and also, frankly, dangerous) way to greet the Gonzaga Men’s Basketball Team arriving for March Madness. pic.twitter.com/IbfOdEUjkr
— Mallory McMorrow (@MalloryMcMorrow) March 28, 2024
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
I miss Prague, I used to go there a few times a year over several years beginning in 1990. I have a friend that lived there (98% certain he was CIA). As I was working for the airlines, ČSA would give me free tix whenever I asked, and I asked a lot! I had a lot of friends that lived there, I think a few are still there, one owned a great little restaurant, Red Hot and Blues, its still there, not sure if she still owns it though.
re: #125 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
They can’t win elections without the theocratic fruitcakes. They’re a failed party because they need the support of dangerous lunatics to win.
Right now, no - they can’t. They need some time in the political wilderness to reconstitute themselves. But I figure if they can ditch the religious loonies, and show some contrition for their outlandish behavior, they might be able to connect with centrist/economically conservative voters.
That’s gonna take a few election cycles, and they have to accept it, as painful as it might be. But honestly, if they can have the self-reflection to understand just how insane they’ve become and pull themselves back from the brink, they would have a future.
I say…let’s make Rockefeller Republicans great again.
re: #124 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
The whole party is nuts. Crackhead Mike is a mainstream 2024 Republican.
The Republican Party has traditionally been the “I’ve got mine, Fuck You” party. It has steadily splintered in those Fuck Yous that want a religious fascist dictatorship and those Fuck Yous that simply wanted to continue the traditional entitled country golf club walled neighborhood life.
The Fuck You is still the same. Whether or not that common ideology is enough to translate into enough power to actually turn out to pull the lever for every (R) on the ballot remains to be seen. But in any case I would tend to think it will not translate into any overall gains across the board.
re: #131 lawhawk
I was gonna post this, so hilarious. Honestly, if you download FlightRadar24 and plug in the tail number, or click on the arriving airport, you can get the flight data of where the plane was flying in from. Also, Allegiant is not the airline that does the flights for asylum seekers, or for sending undocumented aliens back home. There is one, but its in bankruptcy and is gonna be bought out by a really crappy airline that does military charters.
re: #43 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Gonna stick with this starting word until it shows up,
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re: #46 Mike Lamb
I struggle to believe states would follow that type of ruling. And who would enforce it? The justices can’t invent a penalty and even if they did, a Dem admin isn’t sending the FBI to arrest women.
Red states would do it without a second thought. And probably would arrest women who had abortions out of state or who used medication abortion. And then bar them from voting.
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
Right now, no - they can’t. They need some time in the political wilderness to reconstitute themselves. But I figure if they can ditch the religious loonies, and show some contrition for their outlandish behavior, they might be able to connect with centrist/economically conservative voters.
That’s gonna take a few election cycles, and they have to accept it, as painful as it might be. But honestly, if they can have the self-reflection to understand just how insane they’ve become and pull themselves back from the brink, they would have a future.
I say…let’s make Rockefeller Republicans great again.
They’ve had chance after chance to smarten up and have declined. The theocratic loonies in the party are capable of long-term planning. It’s how they’re wrecking our society, but how many of the business Republicans look past the next quarter?
re: #132 Egregious Philbin
Red Hot and Blues closed several years ago. I can’t remember when, but it’s been at least ten years.
re: #97 Belafon
Maryland lawmakers are drafting emergency legislation for income replacement to assist thousands of Port of Baltimore workers impacted by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
More government coddling. Let them swim to work like we used to…upstream in 34° temperatures, dodging ice floes along the way…
re: #125 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
They can’t win elections without the theocratic fruitcakes. They’re a failed party because they need the support of dangerous lunatics to win.
Sounds like Netanyahu’s choice
This is an interesting thing that happened here. My kids attend one of these schools:
ocdsb.ca
IANAL but I don’t see this as being very successful, although I agree with the premise.
Can anyone familiar with Canadian case law comment?
Kentucky legislature is passing a bill to replace US Senators through a special election rather than gubernatorial appointment, which they insist has nothing to do with the fact that the Governor is a Democrat and Mitch McConnell may not be able to complete his current and last term in office.
re: #143 cat-tikvah
Sounds like Netanyahu’s choice
BTW, wasn’t there some kind of deadline approaching very rapidly regarding drafting yeshiva students into the military?
Trump can’t get anyone in GOP to fundraise on his behalf, so he needs dark money, foreign money, and rubes to raise money for him.
Biden can call on any of his Democratic party predecessors, and they’ll come out to support him and his reelection effort. That netted him $25 million from last night alone.
Of course, right wingers lose their shit because Clinton was there - trying to smear him for his associations with Jeff Epstein. That’s all while Trump was also an associate to Epstein and was found in a civil trial to have engaged in forcible sexual assault of E Jean Carroll, defamation on same issue, and a nearly $100 million judgment against him on same.
Both sides? Nope. Just one - Trump is completely unqualified to hold any office and belongs behind bars, not the president’s desk in the Oval Office.
re: #3 Targetpractice
Always love when guests come down, expecting the response to their complaint about another guest to be “Yes ma’am, we’ll whack their pee-pee right away!,” and instead get me giving them a bored look and telling them that we can’t do anything unless we know exactly who did what.
I think a judge has to get a bailiff to do that.
re: #141 Dr Lizardo
Wow, I am sure that Jo’s Garage is long gone too, that was a fun place. When I started going there, there was no chains, no McDonalds, etc. Each store was dusty, and grim and had names like “shoe store”, “restaurant”. It was tough because I don’t eat beef or pork and that was pretty much all you could eat, so I ate at a restaurant run by the Vietnamese embassy, it was passable at best. I fear that Czech Air is doomed though, they are down to only 2 planes with 4 more coming. I remember flying their newish A310, and once, at Newark, they subbed it with their ancient Soviet crap tube the Ilyushin 62-M. I still made the flight as a standby, they were embarrassed, so they kept us all drunk and happy….
re: #64 Nerdy Fish
What in the actual fuck is going on in our media?! Actively collaborating with a political party seems like the exact opposite of Magical Balance Fairy. Are these execs ever going to learn that reality has a liberal bias and that “both sides” is not ever the right way to run a news organization?
You are making an unwarranted assumption. This isn’t MBF stuff. The NBC people trying to do this are themselves fascists salivating for a dictatorship. Period. End of story. Everyone who was involved in this decision must be expelled from the organization.
GOP already signaling that they’re going to fight federal efforts to help fund a Key bridge replacement span, despite the fact because this would harm the regional economy, possibly cause inflation, supply chain shortages, etc.
They are saboteurs and obstructionists, and instead of making sure that the bridge funding is assured, so that the replacement span effort can begin ASAP, the GOP are doing what they can to slow roll every aspect of the reconstruction effort.
All the white, right wingers spew all kinds of crap and misinformation about the bridge collapse, allowing their nativism, anti-immigration, and racist crap to shine through on every aspect of the local, state, and federal response.
re: #150 Egregious Philbin
Yeah, ČSA is pretty much finished. It’s unfortunate, as they were a really great airline.
re: #131 lawhawk
Here is the flight, not too hard to find on the interwebs….
There were 2 other charters into Detroit Metro, an A320 from GlobalX Airlines and a 737-800 from Avelo Airlines.
re: #153 mmmirele
These fucking … I can’t … How can these people just spew this stuff?
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re: #157 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
C’mon. Dutch sheets are a bedding product, or possibly an obscene sexual act. You can’t just make up a person with a name like that and expect us to believe you.
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Pretty sure that involves Crisco and a Slip n Slide.
re: #158 Dr Lizardo
Hmm. I have a bag of Lenders Bagels in my freezer. Do you want me to send them to you?
re: #160 PhillyPretzel ✅
Hmm. I have a bag of Lenders Bagels in my freezer. Do you want me to send them to you?
It’s really the most bizarre thing. Pretty much every single café here in Ostrava serves some variant of a bagel sandwich…yet bagels are completely absent from every single supermarket in town.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
I see. In the cafes you can get them but not in the supermarkets.
re: #139 Hecuba’s daughter
Red states would do it without a second thought. And probably would arrest women who had abortions out of state or who used medication abortion. And then bar them from voting.
They’ve already done that. I’m talking about the idea of a nationwide ban imposed by judicial fiat. No blue state would follow that ruling.
re: #154 lawhawk
GOP already signaling that they’re going to fight federal efforts to help fund a Key bridge replacement span,
despite the factbecause this would harm the regional economy, possibly cause inflation, supply chain shortages, etc.
It is simply a mater of sheer bloody-minded contrarianism.
I even once admired Chris Christie for the way he could put partisan issues aside and work together with Obma on Hurricane Sandy relief.
But then he had his own little nasty little partisan bridge incident, as I recall…
re: #162 PhillyPretzel ✅
I see. In the cafes you can get them but not in the supermarkets.
But only as a prepared sandwich. If you want a bag of bagels, you know, at home for breakfast or something - you’re just SoL.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
It’s really the most bizarre thing. Pretty much every single café here in Ostrava serves some variant of a bagel sandwich…yet bagels are completely absent from every single supermarket in town.
Aldi carries them here in Germany
re: #37 Decatur Deb
Might want to try for an “iceberg-free environment”.
Is the new Titanic going to have longitudinal coal bunkers? Which bypasses watertight doors sealing off flooded sections of the ship .
re: #140 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
They’ve had chance after chance to smarten up and have declined. The theocratic loonies in the party are capable of long-term planning. It’s how they’re wrecking our society, but how many of the business Republicans look past the next quarter?
But most of the fascists are not theocrats. They are racists and evil, but not religious fanatics. Trump, Elmo? Definitely not motivated by religious theology. And I guarantee the Trump supporters I know are not motivated by Christian nationalism.
re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Aldi carries them here in Germany
We only have Lidl. Aldi doesn’t compete here in Czech Republic.
There’s a good reason we stay in the same condo complex every time we come to PV…hard to believe we haven’t been here since just before Covid.
re: #171 darthstar
There’s a good reason we stay in the same condo complex every time we come to PV…hard to believe we haven’t been here since just before Covid.
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re: #170 Dr Lizardo
We only have Lidl. Aldi doesn’t compete here in Czech Republic.
Funny ‘cause Lidl does not carry them here unless it is Amerka-Woche
re: #172 darthstar
Nice pics. I hope you are enjoying your vacation.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Funny ‘cause Lidl does not carry them here unless it is Amerka-Woche
Used to be that Tesco was the only place to find peanut butter here - but now, it’s found everywhere. You can find natural peanut butter at most of the better supermarkets, and Kaufland carries their own label that I’m about 99% sure is just a repackaged jar of Peter Pan.
Except Lidl…unless it’s America Week. 😄
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
Used to be that Tesco was the only place to find peanut butter here - but now, it’s found everywhere. You can find natural peanut butter at most of the better supermarkets, and Kaufland carries their own label that I’m about 99% sure is just a repackaged jar of Peter Pan.
Except Lidl…unless it’s America Week. 😄
I still remember when Wal Mart entered the Geramn market and offered pre-frozen ice cubes!!! They were all but unheard of in Germany outside US military bases. Now they are not uncommon but overpriced, like €2.99 for a 2-kg bag.
The Republican operative who accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault last year received a significant financial settlement in exchange for dropping his lawsuit against Schlapp, multiple sources familiar with the case told CNN.
The $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an insurance policy, according to a source familiar with the details. Schlapp’s legal team did not respond for comment when asked about the financial settlement, but on Tuesday said that Huffman dropped the lawsuit and Schlapp claimed he had been exonerated.
“From the beginning, I asserted my innocence,” Schlapp said in a statement. “Our family was attacked, especially by a left-wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth and the facts.”
You’re not settling the claim for a half million if you did nothing wrong.
You’re just limiting the downside risk of going to trial and having to pay out millions, plus the legal costs of fighting this.
They agreed to terms where Huffman gets money from an insurer, not Schlapp directly - and Schlapp can claim he didn’t do anything, and it’s all a misunderstanding - when Huffman gets the payout to cover the harms done him.
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I still remember when Wal Mart entered the Geramn market and offered pre-frozen ice cubes!!! They were all but unheard of in Germany outside US military bases. Now they are not uncommon but overpriced.
We never had Wal-Mart, but we did (briefly) have K-Mart, one location, in Prague. Hell, even Bill Clinton visited it back when he was POTUS.
The building is still there, but now it’s some other store (I have no idea what it is today). K-Mart just didn’t succeed here. Much like Taco Bell…they opened a location in Prague in around 1991 or so and it flopped. Czechs at the time just couldn’t get the hang of it.
Nowadays, Mexican food (real Mexican food, that is) has become very popular here, especially with the younger generation of Czechs.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
K-Mart didn’t succeed here ultimately. It had merged with Sears before the Randian dude took over and destroyed it all.
re: #174 PhillyPretzel ✅
Nice pics. I hope you are enjoying your vacation.
lo disfruto mucho…day six today. Tomorrow we’ll have a car and drive up to Punta de Mita for my birthday and spend the weekend staring at the beach and renting surfboards and drinking beer in the sun. Fly home Monday. We’re in another condo we’ve rented before so I’ll probably end up cooking on Saturday or Sunday…cooked last night and it was a lovely break from the restaurant row we have become dependent on.
re: #153 mmmirele
Because they have a willing audience to sell to.
I always detested organized religion, but these media ghouls are nothing but total insanity. Might as well handle snakes.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Wal-Mart failed here because German labor laws just did allow employees to learn to appreciate the Walton Family Spirit.
re: #179 Belafon
K-Mart didn’t succeed here ultimately. It had merged with Sears before the Randian dude took over and destroyed it all.
I remember K-Mart from back in the ’70s…gettin’ those Traxx tennis shoes and grabbing a ham sandwich on the way out when they still had a deli counter. And of course, the K-Mart I remember going to in Glendale, CA also had a restaurant in-store, too.
K-Mart (and Sears) were both in long-term decline by the time Fast Eddie Lampert took over. His Randian buffoonery just hastened their demise.
re: #177 lawhawk
Money equals innocence.
Nothing new there.
re: #183 Dr Lizardo
Attention K-Mart shoppers, there’s a BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL in Women’s Undergarments for the next 15 minutes!
re: #183 Dr Lizardo
I remember K-Mart from back in the ’70s…gettin’ those Traxx tennis shoes and grabbing a ham sandwich on the way out when they still had a deli counter. And of course, the K-Mart I remember going to in Glendale, CA also had a restaurant in-store, too.
K-Mart (and Sears) were both in long-term decline by the time Fast Eddie Lampert took over. His Randian buffoonery just hastened their demise.
My sister worked at the same K-Mart store location for, I think, 39 years. She started out making ham sandwiches in their deli. She’s thanked me several times for advising her not to have her entire 401k in company stock (that was the default allocation).
re: #172 darthstar
Best shirt ever! Love it!
re: #185 darthstar
Attention K-Mart shoppers, there’s a BLUE LIGHT SPECIAL in Women’s Undergarments for the next 15 minutes!
K-Mart ain’t dead yet, though.
We have a bar here in Ostrava called “K-Mart”! I haven’t been there yet, but all I can say is if they don’t call their Happy Hour the “Blue Light Special”, well….they’re missing out.
re: #187 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Best shirt ever! Love it!
Thanks. I got it because of the sunflowers and I didn’t bring my Ukraine shirt with me so this is how I’ll show my support on the flight home.
I guess Chris Christie felt he was not getting enough attention.
Chris Christie turns down No Labels candidacy
Just go away. Far, far away.
re: #191 nines09
I guess Chris Christie felt he was not getting enough attention.
Chris Christie turns down No Labels candidacyJust go away. Far, far away.
Apparently he doesn’t want to be like Joe Lieberman.
re: #192 darthstar
Apparently he doesn’t want to be like Joe Lieberman.
Too soon? Two days ago that would have been funny as shit.
re: #191 nines09
I guess Chris Christie felt he was not getting enough attention.
Chris Christie turns down No Labels candidacyJust go away. Far, far away.
There was a time when I would have considered voting for him, as I mentioned, for his across-the-aisle work with Obama during Hurricane Sandy and I also recall him having some very direct words for people who criticized him for nominating a Muslim judge.
But that was long ago, the GOP has nobody in it that I could even begin to think about voting for..
re: #192 darthstar
Watching him in his hour of power, and his sheer arrogance, was just disgusting.
He gave EXXON such a break on pollution cleanup, I think he has a ESSO Tiger tattoo. Or an EXXON part number tattoo.
His butt sniffing Trump was so outlandish.
But he got his true reward. Trump gave him Covid. He lived. Still wanted a butt sniff.
Jersey Jerkoff.
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)
I really don’t understand.
re: #183 Dr Lizardo
I remember K-Mart from back in the ’70s…gettin’ those Traxx tennis shoes and grabbing a ham sandwich on the way out when they still had a deli counter. And of course, the K-Mart I remember going to in Glendale, CA also had a restaurant in-store, too.
K-Mart (and Sears) were both in long-term decline by the time Fast Eddie Lampert took over. His Randian buffoonery just hastened their demise.
I loved the ham sandwiches. And I personally owe them. The Vic 20 was exclusively sold there, and I wouldn’t have had a home computer without that. Plush, I got a slide rule there just before personal calculators became a thing.
re: #193 darthstar
Too soon? Two days ago that would have been funny as shit.
One of GMA’s chyrons said that tributes were pouring in after his death and I was like “Where?”
re: #200 BeachDem
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)I really don’t understand.
If you can understand Trump overpriced all of his properties for decades, and got away with it, you’ll get it.
Starts with a “C” and ends in “N”. “RUP” in the middle.
Your extra Wordle….
re: #200 BeachDem
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)I really don’t understand.
When a very wealthy person has a whole lot of money to buy influence, what he’s willing to purchase has whatever value he’s offering.
re: #200 BeachDem
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)I really don’t understand.
I am not a financial expert, but here’s my layman’s attempt to explain it: The stock price is worth whatever the suckers will pay for it. Demand is artificially inflated because every Trump-humping fucker in the country who has enough money to buy shares has been doing so, driving its price up. The actual value of the asset doesn’t figure into the equation, only what the dipshits who are throwing their money away think it’s worth.
re: #202 Belafon
Weirdly, a Brooklyn newspaper had its headline, not that he was a former VP candidate with Gore or that he was a US Senator, but that he once visited a book panel. Once you open the story, it pulls those details in the headline/lede.
He apparently died after suffering complications from a fall. Oof.
re: #200 BeachDem
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)I really don’t understand.
People have bid up the stock price for a variety of reasons. Some like gambling on “meme” stocks, some want to support Trump or feel like they’re his business partner, some just aren’t very bright. The same thing happened when DWAC, from which Trump Media has just been parted, originally went public. The price soared to around $150 per share for a few days and then slowly dropped into the teens. Trump Media is expected to do the same.
re: #206 Nerdy Fish
It’s going to have the hallmarks of every pump and dump scheme in recent history. You’ve got Trumpists who want a piece of Trump’s venture, and the moment that Trump can cash out, he’s going to do so, while the business circles the drain in debt and insufficient revenues. It has no path to financial viability.
Thanks to all for helping me understand. I guess I should have read the rest of the Fortune article as well:
“Like any meme stock or fad, as long as there’s a greater fool to buy you out for what you paid for it, than you can continue to prosper,” Dunn said, warning that small investors “could end up holding the bag when the music stops.”
Those construction workers who died on the Key Bridge accident were Central American and Mexican immigrants.
One the one hand, I’m happy to know that Trump’s fans will lose their savings and won’t have the scratch to send to actually help the GOP.
On the other hand, I hate the idea that Trump will skirt this financial reckoning. It’s unreal to me that someone as brazenly corrupt as Trump can still find suckers.
Then again, Jimmy Swaggart cried “I HAVE SINNED” after hiring hookers with the money he got from his flock, and he’s still rich beyond belief.
re: #209 lawhawk
It’s going to have the hallmarks of every pump and dump scheme in recent history. You’ve got Trumpists who want a piece of Trump’s venture, and the moment that Trump can cash out, he’s going to do so, while the business circles the drain in debt and insufficient revenues. It has no path to financial viability.
They’ve taken their worship of a criminal so far that they want him to rule the nation as our first autocrat. I really don’t care if they lose every penny they have to the absurd conman so he can afford to pay his rape victim what the court awarded her.
re: #211 nines09
As was said in the Broadway show Hamilton, “Immigrants. We get the job done.”
re: #76 Nerdy Fish
When I was in college, with shared laundry facilities in the dorms, the rule was that you moved the previous guy’s stuff into a dryer or onto a table if the only idle machine had clothes in it, and then you made a good faith effort to wait for a bit to see if you could catch him and tell him where you moved the stuff. But that was a college dorm, where we were all expected to know each other and get along. I wouldn’t expect total strangers in a shared living environment to make any such effort.
You can still try.
When I was in a dorm the laundry room was shared by a *lot* of people with a large premium on dry usage since drying took so much longer than washing. So unattended clothing pretty quickly got moved into baskets or the mobile hampers. I tended to take a book down there with me and sit in a chair or on the washer while waiting for the wash cycle or drying to finish. (I often also accumulated clothes for a few weeks and then took them home to wash. Bonus if my mother was doing laundry since she’d wash mine as well - though I had no expectation of her to wash just my clothes.)
The apartment I lived in with a shared laundry room had a pretty good acceptance of clothes being moved from idle machines. I’d leave my basket next to the washer or dryer to facilitate that. And once I knew the cycle timing I’d usually be down to check on it within 5-10 minutes of it finishing.
Not mentioned: Injuries, in addition to deaths.
re: #211 nines09
Those construction workers who died on the Key Bridge accident were Central American and Mexican immigrants.
See, immigrants were involved just like real news people have been saying for days on Newsmax. TRUMP 2024!!1!
re: #212 Unabogie
One the one hand, I’m happy to know that Trump’s fans will lose their savings and won’t have the scratch to send to actually help the GOP.
On the other hand, I hate the idea that Trump will skirt this financial reckoning. It’s unreal to me that someone as brazenly corrupt as Trump can still find suckers.
Then again, Jimmy Swaggart cried “I HAVE SINNED” after hiring hookers with the money he got from his flock, and he’s still rich beyond belief.
The world of money is built by and for those who have a lot of it.
re: #98 lawhawk
I’ve seen reporting and commentating that suggests the rebuild schedule could be anywhere from 2-10 years. Yeah, quite a range. I figure that it’ll be closer to the lower end of the range, but it takes time to design and build a replacement bridge. My guess is that it will be a cable stayed structure, with the main span piers located either onshore, or close enough to shore that they’d be fully protected by ground/riprap/dolphins. The bridge will probably have a higher mean high water clearance, which will coincidentally allow even bigger ships to use the port.
A complication is that you can’t put a low temporary structure in since it would block the port.
re: #217 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈
Didn’t think of that. They probably loosened the rivets on the girders…
New York taxes citizens and gives the money to Elon Musk https://t.co/VPYGoMihds pic.twitter.com/o9gFDcGUOP
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 28, 2024
re: #123 Dr Lizardo
All they need to do is throw out the Evangelical Christian Nationalists. That right there is what’s preventing the GOP from becoming a normal center-right political party.
Ditch the religious fanatics, and they’ve got it made. And as for the Jesus wackos…well, I say fuck ‘em. Let them start their own political party.
Much cheaper and effective for them to take over an existing party’s machinery. Much like libertarians need an established country in order to take over and wreck it trying to follow their mystical survival tenets.
re: #216 wrenchwench
Most of those are not treated as criminal matters, or police try to pin the blame on pedestrians, not the drivers inattentiveness, negligence, or willful conduct.
re: #220 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Correct. They could go with a tunnel to replace the bridge, but that runs into different problems - higher costs, and the hazmat cargos are not able to use the new crossing.
They can’t block the harbor traffic while they’re rebuilding; the Army Corps of Engineers has already mustered 1,000 to work on clearing the harbor of the bridge and related debris. It will involve pulling out the wreckage, plus making sure that debris on the river bottom doesn’t pose a navigation hazard - so there will probably be dredging at the site as well. They will be trying to get one-way traffic flowing in the harbor asap, and once they can stabilize the ship and its cargo, they’ll tow it to a nearby pier for further investigation, offloading, etc.
re: #224 lawhawk
Most of those are not treated as criminal matters, or police try to pin the blame on pedestrians, not the drivers inattentiveness, negligence, or willful conduct.
Which helps the rate of death continue to climb. Car culture is deadly.
Fatalities aren’t up just in unadjusted, raw deaths, either; the massive jump in pedestrian fatalities during and after Covid has driven a rise in deaths per vehicle-mile traveled and deaths per capita, as well.
re: #168 BeenHereAwhile
Is the new Titanic going to have longitudinal coal bunkers? Which bypasses watertight doors sealing off flooded sections of the ship .
It’ll have a coal bunker for a burner not connected to the power system simply so that they can send out large plumes of smoke for its own sake.
re: #214 PhillyPretzel ✅
As was said in the Broadway show Hamilton, “Immigrants. We get the job done.”
Back before the bottom dropped out in round about 2004-7, I delivered and picked up around Elkhart Indiana. There was a huge influx of Mexican and Central Americans. Lots of jobs. Watched them rebuild trashed out old business strips.
Middlebury, Goshen, Wakarusa, Shipshewana, Bristol.
Opened restaurants and shops. Walked among them in the factories and on the docks. They busted ass, and put up with more than your average Joe would. Much more. Got treated like shit and showed up every day.
I would watch the supervisors and group leaders simply ask “Are there any more like you at home? Can they work here?”
re: #215 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
One of the perks of being on the college track team was being given a large yellow mesh ditty bag. You placed all your stinky running apparel and uniform stuff into the bag, hand it over the counter for washing, and then pick it up the next day at practice. No one checked what was in the bag, they’d just throw the bag into a big washing machine. I lived in t-shirts and sweats for four years. The only laundry I did was jeans once in a while.
Most of my non-athletic friends just went home to mom’s laundry.
re: #225 lawhawk
Correct. They could go with a tunnel to replace the bridge, but that runs into different problems - higher costs, and the hazmat cargos are not able to use the new crossing.
They can’t block the harbor traffic while they’re rebuilding; the Army Corps of Engineers has already mustered 1,000 to work on clearing the harbor of the bridge and related debris. It will involve pulling out the wreckage, plus making sure that debris on the river bottom doesn’t pose a navigation hazard - so there will probably be dredging at the site as well. They will be trying to get one-way traffic flowing in the harbor asap, and once they can stabilize the ship and its cargo, they’ll tow it to a nearby pier for further investigation, offloading, etc.
Pretty much has to be a new bridge since the other methods for the I-95 traffic to get south without exiting and detouring quite a bit uses tunnels.
Heads up to anyone living in S. California or Arizona. There is a SpaceX launch scheduled tonight, just after sunset at 19:30. It should be quite visible, just like the one 2 weeks ago. Look to the western sky. Check spaceflightnow.com to make sure its on time, no guarantees, as there are often delays or scrubs.
re: #231 Egregious Philbin
That’s all?
Prosecutors sought 50, defense wanted 6.5. 25 years is a substantial sentence, along the lines of Jeff Skilling and Bernie Ebbers for Enron and Worldcom, respectively. It’s half of Madoff’s 50 years (who died in prison). It’s more than twice what Theranos’ Holmes got.
re: #115 ckkatz
Thank you for introducing me to the Burns story. Had never heard of him before. It’s heartbreaking that he died just a few years before slavery was abolished altogether. I grew up in Ontario and knew that there were thousands of enslaved refugees who had lived there. It’s fascinating to hear their individual stories.
re: #214 PhillyPretzel ✅
“Immigrants. We get done on the job”
re: #236 Patricia Kayden
Thank you for introducing me to the Burns story. Had never heard of him before. It’s heartbreaking that he died just a few years before slavery was abolished altogether. I grew up in Ontario and knew that there were thousands of enslaved refugees who had lived there. It’s fascinating to hear their individual stories.
Ontario Canada?
You may have heard of John Price.
He was a slave from Kentucky who escaped and fled to Oberlin, Ohio. He was seized by slavers and dragged to Wellington Ohio.
The local townspeople heard about it and surrounded the hotel he was being held. A group of folks from Oberlin joined them.
They demanded that John Price be released and when the captors (including the US Marshall, who was legally required to assist the slavers) refused to surrender him, the townsfolk stormed the hotel and freed him. Then helped him escape to Canada.
This incident became well known and helped convince Ohio to become pro-abolitionist and pro-Abraham Lincoln.
re: #216 wrenchwench
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Not mentioned: Injuries, in addition to deaths.
Not the last paragraph, but almost.
How To Fix The Problem
7,500 pedestrian deaths a year are not just caused by the cars impacting the pedestrians that kill them. If, in the span of one year, 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashed with no survivors, we’d reappraise airspace. We’d question how we build airplanes and how we train pilots. We would recognize this as a failure of the system, not as individual mistakes of 18 pilots. Our roads should be no different.
The good news is that we have sensible solutions in plain sight: lower speed limits, redesign intersections, build roads that prioritize pedestrians and cars equally, and most importantly, reward automakers for building smaller vehicles with better visibility.
The bad news is these require some sacrifice from drivers. Safer roads have lower speed limits—likely enforced by ticketing in one form or another. These roads also require more concentration to drive on. SUVs and pickups would need to revert back to 90s sizing, and all of our cars would need to shrink. These are all a hard sell in America, admittedly, but until they happen, we keep losing lives needlessly.
re: #236 Patricia Kayden
Thank you for introducing me to the Burns story. Had never heard of him before. It’s heartbreaking that he died just a few years before slavery was abolished altogether. I grew up in Ontario and knew that there were thousands of enslaved refugees who had lived there. It’s fascinating to hear their individual stories.
I had read about Anthony Burns before, and recall that it was quite the BFD at the time: the Burns case brought it home (to Boston, no less: home of most anti-slavery agitation in the country at that time) that the Slave Power had, through the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, effectively legalized slavery throughout the whole US, and compelling the judicial system to enforce those “property rights” regardless of (and in most cases to deliberately spite) local/state laws: still less local sentiments.
There is kind of a parallel with today’s anti-abortion fanatics attempting a similar campaign to try to criminalize “abortion” (and most definitely including contraception in general) on a nationwide level with a modern-day equivalent of the 1850 FSA. And it will surely occasion another *Anthony Burns* - though she will be female, this time.
re: #239 teleskiguy
Sam Bankman-Imprisoned
20 years…I hope his cellmates extort him for all his hidden money.
re: #212 Unabogie
One the one hand, I’m happy to know that Trump’s fans will lose their savings and won’t have the scratch to send to actually help the GOP.
On the other hand, I hate the idea that Trump will skirt this financial reckoning. It’s unreal to me that someone as brazenly corrupt as Trump can still find suckers.
Then again, Jimmy Swaggart cried “I HAVE SINNED” after hiring hookers with the money he got from his flock, and he’s still rich beyond belief.
Remember the plotline of the movie “The Producers”?
re: #172 darthstar
Looking down at the pool last night…and me and my missus.
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i really thought those dancers behind you were taller…
And Nancy Mace and her fellow slimy Republicans rejoice.
A federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in South Carolina and said the state could use its existing map this year even though it had earlier determined that map was unconstitutional.
The panel of three judges last year concluded that South Carolina’s Republican-led legislature “exiled” 30,000 Black voters from the district to make it safer for a White GOP incumbent, Rep. Nancy Mace.
re: #249 BeachDem
God, this country is so stupid sometimes. “What you did is blatantly illegal, but because you delayed just long enough, we’ll allow it.”
re: #233 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pretty much has to be a new bridge since the other methods for the I-95 traffic to get south without exiting and detouring quite a bit uses tunnels.
I wonder if a ferry service might cover any hazmat loads as well as taking other freight traffic.
re: #250 Nerdy Fish
God, this country is so stupid sometimes. “What you did is blatantly illegal, but because you delayed just long enough, we’ll allow it.”
And the “Supremes” heard the case in October but just haven’t had Time to rule. They’ve just been so busy destroying women’s rights
re: #210 BeachDem
Thanks to all for helping me understand. I guess I should have read the rest of the Fortune article as well:
“Like any meme stock or fad, as long as there’s a greater fool to buy you out for what you paid for it, than you can continue to prosper,” Dunn said, warning that small investors “
couldwill end up holding the bag when the music stops.”
re: #200 BeachDem
Can someone please explain to me in simple terms for a non-financial mind, how Trump’s media mess has a market value of $7.85 billion, when
Trump Media lost $49 million in the first nine months of last year, when it brought in just $3.4 million in revenue and had to pay $37.7 million in interest expenses (per Fortune)I really don’t understand.
Yes, there is an enormous float of shares being shorted by very wise folks. Of course, in order to short legally, without being naked, you do take possession of the shares, and that means there are lots of people assuming this turkey is going to zero, and who are willing to pay up for the joy of being there the day it takes an 80% blowout.
re: #242 wrenchwench
You have so many huge pickups and SUV’s with heavily tinted glass, and parked besides them or riding behind, you can’t see anything.
Now throw in the driver who cannot drive his/her vehicle without a cellphone in their hand in parking lots at speed.
And the thing that absolutely kills me is, I knew dudes who had a wife and 2 kids and their only ride was a pickup truck that was never used for anything but riding.
Perfect pickups without a scratch on them. Buffed up. Sand/mud tires jacked up so high you fall out, you hurt. With dual stacks coming out of the bed and naked, so whoever touches it is scarred for life.
Can’t forget the “We the people” screed and the red white and blue Punisher skull.
American flag mudflaps, and a Trump bumper sticker or 10.
Patriot.
Same guys who “road hunted” in deer season. That’s where you ride around and if you see a deer you shoot it from your vehicle. Screw anyone else, daddy needs spike antlers…
to overstate the obvious
airliner crashes are a bigger deal because they are more or less rare, affect a lot of people at once and the survival rate tends to be low
small plane crashes - meh.
gun deaths too. people die from gunshot wounds every day. what do we focus on? mass shootings.
pedestrian deaths are a constant trickle, like small planes and daily gun deaths. each event affecting a very small number of people, so not very spectacular.
Rawstory: Evicted Mike Lindell says he didn’t pay rent to make it ‘easier’ on landlord
I don’t like linking to Rawstory because of the ads and other reasons, however, this -
Lindell, who was wearing a bathrobe for the interview, called the story of his eviction “regurgitated news.”
“And I worked it out with the landlords, and they said, you know what, for you guys, just get out of there,” he continued.
I wonder if a more exact quote would be “you know what? Just fuckin leave”?
re: #256 Dangerman
And as Aaron Sorkin, through The Newsroom would say (the episode was even titled The Greater Fool)
The Greater Fool is… a patsy. For the rest of us to profit, we need a greater fool— someone who will buy long and sell short. Most people spend their life trying not to be the greater fool; we toss him the hot potato, we dive for his seat when the music stops. The greater fool is someone with the perfect blend of self-delusion and ego to think that he can succeed where others have failed. This whole country was made by greater fools.
re: #103 lawhawk
Surprising absolutely no one, Trump gives himself imaginary trophies in a club competition that had no other competitors. Everyone from Tiger Woods on down have stories of Trump cheating at golf. Why didn’t anyone stop him on the course from pulling that crap?
All of these guys (and they’re invariably guys), wanted to have their own personal Trump cheats at golf stories.
It’s just another symptom of the rot in Trumpworld and Trump himself.
Way back in the old days I seem no to remember people howling about Clinton cheating at golf and how that was a direct reflection on his character.
I would say where are those people now, and why aren’t they howling about Trump? But Trump has so many reprehensible character flaws that his golf cheating and bragging is kind of quaint.
Cruise ships sail out of Baltimore Harbor, and that’s another job and money loss. This is going to hurt and the GOP will block help because they want Biden to look bad, even if they have to eff you to do it.
Products will have to be shipped to Virginia, NYC and Philly ports. Mouths are watering as we speak because it’s one more great opportunity to gouge.
re: #46 Mike Lamb
I struggle to believe states would follow that type of ruling. And who would enforce it? The justices can’t invent a penalty and even if they did, a Dem admin isn’t sending the FBI to arrest women.
I’m going to repeat again that I could see certain states (such as California) defying any attempt to ban abortion drugs by becoming the importer and distributor of mifepristone (which is apparently manufactured in China). Of course, if there’s a new Tr*mp administration, that would bring CA in direct conflict with the Feds. Not a good situation, but seriously folks, Gavin Newsom wants to be president *bad*. I could see him doing this.
re: #245 darthstar
The article I read said 25 years. The prosecutor was asking for 40 and the defense lawyer pleaded for 5 to 7 years. He was responsible for losing 8 billion for investors, 3 for investors, and 1 billion and change for lenders. Read “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon” by Michael Lewis for the details of the massive fraud.
He’ll go down in history with other frauds like Ponzi and Madoff.
re: #55 Randall Gross
Another signpost on the road to the future:
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London has been charging a congestion fee of £15 for any non-exempt vehicle being driven into the City from 07:00 to 18:00 daily since 2003.
As to whether the congestion charge works in London, the Wikipedia article is unclear.
re: #273 nines09
I have been on the bridge-tunnel. It is something else.
Now what’s he grifting?????#TrumpIsATraitorAndCriminal #trumpisnotfittobepresident#trumpisaRussianasset #TrumpForPrison2024 pic.twitter.com/sCt6WAZUIB
— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) March 28, 2024
re: #83 darthstar
So Lee Greenwood sold the leather Good Bless America bible in 2021 to mark the anniversary of 9/11. For $49.99.
So basically Trump is selling the overstock of that campaign which he is getting for next to nothing for $60.
Next he’ll sell Trump endorsed copies of Miracle on Ice VHS and Betamax versions.
This is not a leather Bible. This is a cheap version of Flexibound or similar wrapping what has been described as terrible printing on awful paper.
If y’all are looking to buy a Bible, Christianbook dot com is usually and generally the source with the widest selection and the lowest prices (source: me, based on years and years of looking at Bibles). Plus, unlike Amazon, CB includes sample pages (the same ones, the beginning of Genesis and Mark). THAT SAID, the vast, vast majority of Bibles available on Christianbook dot com are pitched to the Evangelical community and the translations and notes reflect that. The “English Standard Version” (which is giving the NIV a run for its money in the “can we sell the most” department) is particularly egregious in this department. It’s not precisely a translation, but a revision of the 1952 Revised Standard Version by Wayne Grudem and others. Some of the changes made reflect their view of the inferiority of women. There are other problems.
My feeling about the ESV can be demonstrated by this: I was given a cheap, paperbound ESV a few years back and I trashed it. I just didn’t want that garbage in my house. Other Bibles aren’t so great either (e.g., the translators of the NIV had to sign a statement that they believe the Bible is inerrant in its original autographs), but this one is a political statement by the neo-Calvinists against what they hate.
There’s no perfect Bible out there, but the Oxford Study Bible NRSV is probably the best you’re going to get. It even includes the Apocrypha (excluded from Protestant Bibles for the last few hundred years). But most other Bibles I’d just stay away from, unless you’re doing very specific research into how a version of the Bible (*cough* old Scofield KJV *cough*) influenced end of the world speculations in the 20th century.
White nationalist misogynstic Christian fascist Speaker Johnson is sending Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate on April 10.
It will land with a dull thud as most GOPers who haven’t completely lost their fucking minds know that there isn’t a case here, and that the House GOP blocked an immigration/border security package just as they were pushing this impeachment. They just want (and got the headline).
They don’t have a case. They have no proof of a high crime or misdemeanor. They have nothing, but they’ll waste everyone’s time with this stunt because they can’t legislate for shit. Johnson is doing it to remain in the chair just a little longer (though I wish someone would just electrify it already and put Johnson out of our collective misery).
re: #258 nines09
You have so many huge pickups and SUV’s with heavily tinted glass, and parked besides them or riding behind, you can’t see anything.
Now throw in the driver who cannot drive his/her vehicle without a cellphone in their hand in parking lots at speed.
And the thing that absolutely kills me is, I knew dudes who had a wife and 2 kids and their only ride was a pickup truck that was never used for anything but riding.
Perfect pickups without a scratch on them. Buffed up. Sand/mud tires jacked up so high you fall out, you hurt. With dual stacks coming out of the bed and naked, so whoever touches it is scarred for life.
Can’t forget the “We the people” screed and the red white and blue Punisher skull.
American flag mudflaps, and a Trump bumper sticker or 10.
Patriot.
Same guys who “road hunted” in deer season. That’s where you ride around and if you see a deer you shoot it from your vehicle. Screw anyone else, daddy needs spike antlers…
They picture themselves as caricatures of the characters from the Mad Max franchise.
re: #267 mmmirele
London has been charging a congestion fee of £15 for any non-exempt vehicle being driven into the City from 07:00 to 18:00 daily since 2003.
As to whether the congestion charge works in London, the Wikipedia article is unclear.
After seeing the changes in SF post quake, I’m definitely for more walkable, livable cities with less car traffic.
re: #96 ckkatz
Yes it does!
Czech has also been central in getting the EU to provide artillery ammunition to Ukraine. Apparently that effort is well underway and has delivered 100s of thousands of shell already. I suspect that there are other projects that we have not yet heard about.
Also, it was wear all the action in the movie Stripes took place.
Nicole Shanahan has denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”
Yeah rfk’s campaign will turn out well
re: #285 Dangerman
Nicole Shanahan has denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”
Yeah rfk’s campaign will turn out well
That’s a hell of a twist, calling a medical procedure that results in actual humans a ‘lie’. Almost like calling somebody ‘illegitimate’.
re: #285 Dangerman
Nicole Shanahan has denounced IVF — calling it “one of the biggest lies that’s being told about women’s health today.”
Yeah rfk’s campaign will turn out well
But wait there’s more
“I’m not sure that there has been a really thorough mitochondrial respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning sunlight on reproductive health. I would love to fund something like that,
re: #172 darthstar
Fella hope you are having a GREAT time.
After I have done my time and paid my dues to society and retire—I’m gonna do a couple train trips on Amtrak and I’ll share some pics here to make everyone jealous of the food served on the train…
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Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman Voted Illegally Nine Times
re: #287 Dangerman
But wait there’s more
“I’m not sure that there has been a really thorough mitochondrial respiration study on the effects of two hours of morning sunlight on reproductive health. I would love to fund something like that,
From your link:
The 38-year-old’s opposition to IVF and skepticism of the fertility industry makes her an outlier in the presidential field
I wish they would just call her an ‘out and out lier’.
re: #284 Axolotl
Also, it was wear all the action in the movie Stripes took place.
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“C’mon, it’s Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick ‘em up, we zip right out again. We’re not going to Moscow. It’s Czechoslovakia. It’s like we’re going into Wisconsin.”
re: #290 wrenchwench
From your link:
I wish they would just call her an ‘out and out lier’.
I wish they’d just call her “batshit insane”.
re: #266 sizzzzlerz
He’ll go down in history with other frauds like Ponzi and Madoff.
But at least Ponzi got a scheme named after him.
re: #292 Dr Lizardo
I wish they’d just call her “batshit insane”.
If rfk was related to any other family neither he nor she would rate a footnote
re: #278 lawhawk
White nationalist misogynstic Christian fascist Speaker Johnson is sending Mayorkas impeachment to the Senate on April 10.
It will land with a dull thud as most GOPers who haven’t completely lost their fucking minds know that there isn’t a case here, and that the House GOP blocked an immigration/border security package just as they were pushing this impeachment. They just want (and got the headline).
They don’t have a case. They have no proof of a high crime or misdemeanor. They have nothing, but they’ll waste everyone’s time with this stunt because they can’t legislate for shit. Johnson is doing it to remain in the chair just a little longer (though I wish someone would just electrify it already and put Johnson out of our collective misery).
Well, isn’t “ getting headlines” the whole point of the Mayorkas nonsense?
AFAIC, the only question is how much time the GOPers are going to waste grandstanding over “border invasion” bullshit. There seem to be few useful options (and I’m sure even most of the Senate Republicans know it). The main problem is that Senatorial idiots like JD Vance and Tommy Spudtown aren’t going to be able to resist using the impeachment process as a forum for campaigning; so (unless Chuck Schumer can work some procedural magic) we’re probably looking forward to a full “trial”.
The silver lining though, is that - GOP blustering aside - highlighting Republican obstructionism on any real border/immigration reform isn’t going to reflect well on them.
But the flip-side of THAT, is that it is likely to also highlight what the Trump/GOP “reform” plans really entail, i.e., an immediate and complete ban on ANY immigration into the US, coupled with a (militarized) operation of mass arrest, detention and deportation of as many of the N- million “illegals” they can root out. A program which, disgracefully, is probably not as unpopular as it should be…
This morning I saw a small flock of smol birbs all fly into the tree in front of me, and then hold still, in effect, disappearing among the seed balls on the sycamore. I put my glasses on and found birbs and borbs (it’s cold and rainy), then I got the field glasses, and found a small flock of Cedar Waxwings.
re: #286 wrenchwench
That’s a hell of a twist, calling a medical procedure that results in actual humans a ‘lie’. Almost like calling somebody ‘illegitimate’.
Yeah—how does this even work? We know it produces babies.
We’re like a half step from denouncing addition.
re: #285 Dangerman
Bitch thinks my godson is a lie. Well fuck her then.
re: #250 Nerdy Fish
God, this country is so stupid sometimes. “What you did is blatantly illegal, but because you delayed just long enough, we’ll allow it.”
They keep doing it since they constantly get away with it. Or simply get a fine which is chicken feed compared to what the political win will bring in financially along with its influence and power.
re: #254 Nojay UK
I wonder if a ferry service might cover any hazmat loads as well as taking other freight traffic.
Probably not worth it given the time, location and money needed to build the ferry docks, connect them to I-95 effectively, and acquire ferries that can handle a sufficient number of tractor trailers.
re: #297 wrenchwench
This morning I saw a small flock of smol birbs all fly into the tree in front of me, and then hold still, in effect, disappearing among the seed balls on the sycamore. I put my glasses on and found birbs and borbs (it’s cold and rainy), then I got the field glasses, and found a small flock of Cedar Waxwings.
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I’ll see flocks of them in early June. The little crabapple/cherry (whatever) tree in front of my window is getting ready to bloom and when it fruits the cedar waxwings cycle through 3-4 times a day to eat fruit or roost in the cedar tree adjacent to it.
Floof Cat finds the activity fascinating to watch from balcony or apartment windows.
re: #267 mmmirele
London has been charging a congestion fee of £15 for any non-exempt vehicle being driven into the City from 07:00 to 18:00 daily since 2003.
As to whether the congestion charge works in London, the Wikipedia article is unclear.
It’s a fee that rich people pay to drive into London. It clears out the riff raff.
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